Jiří Marvan: language - its Czech story
- Where: Vaclav Havel Library, Řetězová 7, Prague
- When: December 19, 2013, 17:00 – 19:00
Jiří Marvan’s book Jazyk – jeho český příběh (Language – Its Czech Story), subtitled The First Thousand Years (800–1800), is a guided tour of Czech linguistic ecology. Jiří Marvan is a linguist, teacher and diplomat. He has been working for nearly 30 years at universities in Scandinavia, the USA and Australia. He now lectures at Charles University in Prague and at J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.
The author has gathered authentic texts, starting with Great Moravia’s Constantine in the 9th century and ending with F.M. Pelcl and J. Kollár at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. In Marvan’s telling, the history of language ceases to be a hodgepodge of abstract data or a time-bound event but becomes an active part of our knowledge environment.
We are presenting the book in cooperation with the publishers Karolinum.